Greetings fellow time travelers.

All was lovely to know that you're out there so that we're traveling together on this journey through history.

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Okay, it's time to strap into the time machine as we set off on the next stop on my love letter

to the world.

Recorder microphone, action. Action.

Much of Europe united in a vast empire,

held together by the wisdom and strength of one man Charlemine.

His death though plunges the continent into chaos, civil war and bloodshed, deadly brotherly battles, greed, grasping ambition and sorrow.

Pieces brokered and three kingdoms are created.

Watching over the chaos and all subsequent attempts to unite the continent is the ghost of Charlemine.

Always, always dressed in a plain blue francish cloak.

Endeouring to understand history in hopes of eliminating the future. I'm Neil Oliver and this is my love letter to the world.

Hi Neil, in the last episode we travelled with you to Rome in 800 AD,

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